il INDEX. 
— OO ese ee SCO Oo — 
Botany—Mogs Habitats, 36, 89 
Moss Flora, 221 
of Falmouth, 228, 285 
— Pollen of the Hazel, 128 
— Pollen, 129 
— Ripening of Fruits, 308 
—— Spring Flowers, 125, 158, 161, 162 
Structure of Pitcher Plants, 265,295 
Scarlet Runners, 284 
Botaurus stellaris, 53 
Brazil Wood, Rocks of, 243 
Brent Tor and Neighbourhood, Eruptive 
_ Rocks of, (Review,) 17 
Bristol Coal Fields, (Review,) 67 
British Association, Meeting of the, (1879,) 
236, (1880) 237 
Fresh-water Fishes, (Review,) 205 
Buckley, ,(Arabella B.,) Fairyland of 
Science, (Review,) 46 
Burnet Moth and Orchis pyramidalis, 21 
Burton -upon- Trent Natural History 
Society, Calendar of Nature, 152 
Butterflies, (British,) Bijou List of, 24 
Buzzard, (Honey,) 22, 235 
in North Notts, 128 
Caldon Low, Excursion to, 248 
Calendar of Nature, 1878, 152 
Callaway, (C.,) The Quartzites of Shrop- 
eRe shire, 39 
Callaway, (C.,) on Pre-Cambrian Rocks, 81 
Callaway, (C.,) Government Grant to, 103 
Cambridgeshire, Post Tertiary Deposits 
of, (Review,) 155 
Camera Obscura, Microscopie, 78 
Cannock Chase, Entomology of, 291 
Caradoc Sandstone, 39 
Carchesium polypinum, 88 
- spectabile, 204 
Cardiff Naturalists’ Society, Transactions, 
(Review,) 205 
Cat, Journey of a, 212 
Caterpillars: How to Find and How to 
Rear Them, 177 
Cells, 237 
Ceratodus, Teeth of the, 21 
Chaffinches, 98, 101, 153 
Charnwood Rocks, Garnets in, 77, 245 
Forest, 139, 168, 243 
Excursion to, 104,117, 173 
Chester Society of Natural 
Proceedings of, (Review,) 156 
Chiff-chaff, 124, 129, 168, 159, 160 
Chrysosplenium alternifolium, 158, 188 
Coal Fields of Bristol, 67 
— History of, 129 
eobuela, (T. 8.,) Parasites of Man, 7, 61, 
Cobbola, (T. §.,) Parasites of Man and 
Animals, 162 
Coccothraustes vulgaris, 77, 122, 123 
Coleoptera, 26, 32, 57, 92, 100, 108, 142, 212, 
216, 229 
Coleoptera, Notes on Collecting, &c., 92, 142 
Colours of Flowers, by F. T'. Mott, 175 
Compost for Flower Beds, 302 
Conchologist, A Query for a, 53 
Conchology, 21, 197 
Conversazione of the “ Midland Union,” 171 
Corn-crake, 187, 210 
Correspondence, 21, 52, 76, 100, 127, 158, 188, 
210, 284, 258, 283, 307 
Correspondents, Answers to, 28, 264 
History, 
Cotteswolds, Ancient Inhabitants of the,77 
Creswell Caves and Crags, 239 
Cryptogamic Botany, 72, 143, 145 
Flora of Warwickshire, 220, 253, 278 
Crystals, Spherical Projection of, 82 
Crystallisation of Water, by W. B. Grove,96 
Cuckoo, 128, 158, 158, 159, 161, 210 
Curlews, 234 
Dale Abbey, 105, 239 
Dallinger, (Rev. W.H.,) Lecture by, 310 
Daphnia Bairdii, (illust.,) 217, 284 
Defoliation of Trees, 308 
Derby, Ornithological Notes from, 101, 159 
Dick, (Robert,) Life of, by §. Smiles, 
(Review,) 207 
Diphtheria fungus, 289 
Distribution, Geographical, of Plants and 
Animals, 9 
Drege Objects under the Microscope, 
18, ‘ 
Pi 
Drift, Black Band in the, 127, 159, 189, 211 
Examination of, 201, 226 
of the West Midlands, 238 
Fossiliferous Bunter Pebbles in,283 
Druce, (G. C.,) Ferns of Northants, 44 
Ducks, Wild, 102 
Dudley and Midland Geological and 
Scientific Society, Proceedings, (illust.,) 
(Review,) 14, 21 
Ear, Human, 25 
Earth, Age of the, 163 
Edison’s Phonograph, 79 
Education in France, 132 
Hel, (Paste,) 129 
Eggs, 102, 129, 259 ; 
Elwes, (H. J.,) Geographical Distribution 
of Animals and Plants, 9 
Endowment of Research, 103 
Enock, (F.,) Insects Mounted Without 
Pressure, 97 
Entomology, 19, 24, 26, 30, 55, 57, 65, 76, 81, 
83, 92, 100, 130, 134, 142, 152, 161, 177, 187, 
193, 210, 212, 215, 229, 934, 247, 256, 258, 
283, 285, 291 
Midland, 30, 193, 229, 291 
Entomological Rambles in the Midlands, 
193, 229, 291 
Entomostracon, A New, (illust.,) 217 
Note on, 284 
Epistylis leucoa, 89 
Ethnology, 77 _ 
Htwall, Excursion to, 287 
Evesham, Vale of, Glacial Deposits, 106 
Exchange, 56, 84, 108, 216, 264, 312 
Excursions (see Societies—Reports of) 
Fairyland of Scienee, by Arabella B. 
Buckley, (Review,) 46 
Falmouth, Excursion to, 228, 311 : 
Fauna of the Quartzites of Shropshire, 44 
Ferns of Northants, by G. C. Druce, 44 
Fertilisation of Orchids, 21 
Festival of Gnaits, 247 
Fieldfares, 23, 76, 98, 128, 159 
Fire at the Birmingham Reference, 
Library, 55 
Fishes, History of British, (Review,) 205 
Fish, Double-headed Salmon, 100 
Query Artificial Food for, 53; 
Answered, 78, 100 
